This 1939 flag of Palestine shows that it was recognized as a Jewish entity even then, and that the name “Palestine” historically referred to a region (so named by the Romans after they expelled the Jews in 134AD, using the name of the Philistines, the Israelites’ Biblical enemies), not to a people. There was no […]
UAE designates Hamas-linked CAIR a terrorist organization
UPDATE: ABC News confirms this, noting in the very last paragraph of its story that the UAE has designated Hamas-linked CAIR a terrorist group. Probably they buried it out of embarrassment over the fact that the mainstream media has been going to Hamas-linked CAIR for years as if they were really what they claim to […]
UK: Muslim buys trendy hotel, abruptly bans pork and alcohol
The Bermondsey Square Hotel was “previously voted the UK’s trendiest place to stay.” And the thing is, it is still trendy. Nothing is trendier in Britain these days than Sharia compliance. The Bermondsey Square Hotel is on the cutting edge of Britain’s future. Watch for many more hotels in Britain to follow its lead. “Welcome […]
Islamic State says it’ll mint its own coins
The longer the Islamic State continues to exist, and the longer that it amasses more and more of the ordinary features of a functioning government, the harder it is going to be for Barack Obama to maintain his claim that it is not a state. And the legends on these coins once again belie is […]
Smuggler says he sends Islamic State jihadis to Europe via Turkey
“The Western world thinks there is no ISIS in their countries — that all the jihadis have gone to fight and die in Syria. But this man said, ‘No. We are sending our fighters to take their places.’” “Smuggler Says He Sent ISIS Fighters To Europe,” by Mike Giglio and Munzer al-Awad, BuzzFeed, November 11, 2014: […]
Woman proclaiming Christ ejected from Muslim prayers at National Cathedral
It all sounds so high-minded: the Rev. Canon Gina Campbell says: “This needs to be a world in which all are free to believe and practice and in which we avoid bigotry, Islamaphobia, racism, anti-Semitism, and anti-Christianity and to embrace our humanity and to embrace faith.” But someone threw a rotting cabbage on their lovely […]
Bosnia police arrest 11 Muslims for involvement in jihad in Syria and Iraq
What? Bosnia? This must be some mistake. We have been told for years that all the Muslims in Bosnia are secularized, moderate and pro-Western, and that only greasy Islamophobes believe there isn’t total unanimity there on such matters. These misunderstanders of Islam must have come from somewhere else. “Bosnia police arrest 11 suspected of involvement […]
Morocco arrests four Muslims from France with jihad terror links
France’s booming new export: jihad. “Morocco arrests four French Islamists with suspected terrorist links,” Reuters, November 13, 2014: RABAT – Morocco’s interior ministry said on Thursday police have arrested four French nationals linked to what it called terrorist groups operating in the city of Marrakesh and Western Sahara’s Laayoune. Morocco, a Western ally against Islamist […]
Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Brookings Institution’s Old New Ideas
In “Brookings Institution’s New Idea: Try Failed Solutions Again” at FrontPage, I discuss the latest nonsense from the influential Qatar-funded think tank: Bruce Riedel, senior fellow and director of the Brookings Institution’s Intelligence Project, published a piece in the Daily Beast last Sunday with the provocative title, “Why’s Al Qaeda So Strong? Washington Has (Literally) […]
UK: Cameron will ban jihadis returning from Islamic State for two years
The ban can be renewed after the two-year period, but presumably if a jihadi waits out the two years as a quiet shopkeeper in Beirut or somewhere and then reapplies with a clean record, he will then be let back in — and then he can go back to jihad. The Cameron government is restricted […]